What Price the American Empire?

Is the empire worth it? French, Brits, even Soviets said no. They went home. And nothing over there  not oil, not bases in Saudi Arabia, not global hegemony  is worth risking nuclear terror over here. I may be the only right-winger in America who loves D.C., but then I grew up here. Washington is my hometown. It comes first, and empire isn’t even a close second.

Strange to be quoting the RIGHT here, but he can see clearly that all this about imperialism. We are in for an new Empire that will take a lot to defeat.